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A habit tracker for couples

Three shapes that work for two people who live together · 3-minute read

Most habit apps are built for one person and then bolted onto a group. Pacts starts from the pair, because that is the version that sticks: a promise made to someone who will notice is a different thing from a reminder you set yourself. You make one small daily commitment, your partner sees the day go by, and skipping it stops being a private decision.

Three shapes come up again and again. Pick the one that matches the argument you keep having.

Instead of nagging

The pact: an evening walk together, daily.
The reward: a full week → breakfast out on Sunday.

This is the one couples come for. The reminder stops coming from your partner and starts coming from the pact — and that single move takes the habit out of the relationship and puts it somewhere neither of you has to defend. Nobody is being chased. There is just a thing you both said you would do, and a screen that shows whether you did.

Same goal, separate effort

The pact: gym three times a week — each of you marks your own.
The reward: a month kept → money into the trip fund.

You aren’t doing it together. You’re just both visible. A pact can run a few times a week rather than every day, so “three gym sessions” is a real configuration and not a daily commitment you’ll break by Wednesday. Each of you keeps your own streak on it; the shared number is the one below.

One of you holds the standard

The pact: no phone at the dinner table — and your partner marks it, not you.
The reward: two weeks → they pick the film.

Handing someone else the mark is the version that works when you don’t trust yourself to be honest about it. Mostly you mark yourself — that is the normal path in Pacts, not the exception — but your partner can mark a day for you, vouch for one, or veto a claim you didn’t earn. Every mark has a window (12 hours by default) in which the person marked can correct it, so an honest mistake is fixable and nobody has to play police.

The number that only exists because there are two of you

Every pact keeps your own streak. A pair also builds the run of days you both kept it — the app shows it as “🤝 N days you’ve both kept it”. It is the one number a solo tracker cannot give you, and it is the reason people don’t want to be the one who ends it.

A missed day is never scolded. One slip a month is forgiven automatically on the free tier, so a bad Tuesday doesn’t wipe a good month, and a fresh start is always one tap away.

What it costs

Nothing, for a couple. Free covers two people, three pacts and two circles, with streaks, peer check-ins, cheers, reminders, rewards and a monthly grace day. Pacts Pro exists for bigger circles and unlimited pacts — and one member’s Pro covers everything the circle shares, so even then only one of you would ever pay.

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